Extensible towel bar



Aug. 25, 1953 A. MARCHAND EXTENSIBLE TOWEL BAR Filed Nov. 26, 1949 INVENTOR.

Patented Aug. 25, 1953 UNITEDv STATES PATENT oFFlcE EXTENSIBLE TOWEL BAR.

Adolph Marchand, Jackson Heights, N. Y.

Application November 26, 1949, Serial No. 129,669

1 claim. l

The object of the present invention is to provide a telescopic, adjustable towel bar or rack which will be held in position by spring tension and which will have such pressure upon the socket walls of end positioned brackets as to require no separate fastening elements, which will be rigid, and which will be attractive in form.

The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a top plan View, partly broken away, on the line I-I of Fig. 2, showing an embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a view in front elevation, partly broken away and illustrating the structure of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a view in perspective, partly broken away, showing one of the two slotted guide and stop bars;

Fig. 4 is a view in perspective of the guide and holding block;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the cap plate for the guide and holding block;

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary perspective view showing an end area of one of the inner telescopic bar members; and

Fig. 'I is a vertical section on the lines 'l-l of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Referring to the drawings, it will be seen that the rack includes an extensible telescopic bar assembly consisting of a central tubular unit I which may be of any desired shape and which is rectangular in the present embodiment. Within tubular member I, and centrally thereof, is secured a guide and holding block 2, which is shown in Fig. 4. 'I'his block may readily be made of a piece of metal bent upwardly at three sides to form raised walls, two of the walls which are directed oppositely each other being formed with horizontal slots at 3. The bars 6 are inserted in the slots 3 with those anges 8, devoid of screw holes, being disposed away from one another. As shown in Fig. 2 the flanges B of one bar 6 point upward and of the adjacent bar 6 they point downward. The non-flanged sides of the bars 6 are in sliding contact with each other. The guide and holding block may be held against longitudinal movement relatively to the member I by a stud screw 4, the threaded end of which enters an aperture in cap plate 5 which is shown in Fig. 5. In practice the aperture in the cap plate would be threaded.

Longitudinally extending within member I are two slotted guide and stop bars 6, Fig. 3, and surrounding each bar is a compressible spiral spring 1. Each guide and 'stop bar is formed with a stop flange 8 at its opposite ends.

Slidingly received within the opposite end areas of member I are two bar members 9. Each bar member at its inner end carries a wall II which receives a screw I2 threaded in the flanged end of an appropriate one of the two slotted guide and stop bars 6. One of the springs 1 bears at one end upon a side of the guide and holding block 2 and upon its appropriate extension bar 9. When these springs exert their full action, the extension bars 9 will be projected to the degree that a flange of each of the slotted guide and stop bars will engage a side of the guide and holding block, as shown in Fig. 2, and further outward projection of the extension bars 9 will be prevented. Also, as the extension bars are moved inwardly from their outermost position they will receive increasing spring pressure.

When the device is held by brackets it is only necessary that seats be formed in the brackets to receive the extension bars, since the spring pressure will maintain the entire assembly in position and the bar may readily be removed by inward sliding movement of one or both of the extension bars until the same are free from the seats in the brackets. In the drawings, I have shown suitable brackets at I4.

By means of the invention a twelve inch, or more or less, range of adjustment in the length of the bar assembly may be secured so that a single unit will be adapted for all of the various conditions as to required bar length now present in the industry. Thus, as an example, the bar is adapted for the presently standard length ranges of from eighteen to thirty inches. It will be understood that various modifications may be made in the form and arrangement of the elements constituting the embodiment illustrated and described herein without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

An extensible rack adapted as a towel bar comprising a central tubular member, a guide block interiorly disposed in said central member and removably secured thereto, said guide block having a pair of open end slots in a linear plane, a pair of longitudinal slotted stop bars disposed in said open slots, each stop bar having end flanges disposed in the same direction, said stop bars being in sliding engagement with each other on their non-Hanged surface, a flanged cap plate having a screw hole therein and adapted to receive a screw, which screw traverses the slots of both of said stop bars and secures the central tubular member, the guide block, and the cap plate to one another as Well as securing the longitudinal stop bars in sliding Contact, a spiral spring disposed about each of said stop bars and bearing against the respective exterior sides of the guide block and inside the central tubular member, end bar members disposed inside each end of the central member having their interiorly disposed ends in contact with said spiral springs, and plate means for .securing the end bar members to an exterior flange respectively of each 10 of said stop bars.

ADOLPH MARCHAND.

References Cited in the flle or this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date Spielman Nov. 17, 1885 Denning Jan. 12, 1915 Crump Apr. 11, 1916 Simpson Aug. 7, 1928 Teitelbaum Mar. 21, 1933 Megar Aug. 14, 1945 Piotrowski Aug. 17, 1948 

